Way-bill.



No. 73mm. PATENTE) SEPT. n, nos. W. P. /IULLAHY.

WAY Bmg.

APPLIUATIOH FILED FEB. 9. 1903.

irren lerares Patented september 15,1903.

Parisist Dineren.

WAYsBlLL.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 738,832, datedSeptember 15, 1908.

llnnlication tiled February 9, 1903. Serial No. 142,521. (No modsld Tocoll whom, t 'may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM F. MULLAnv,a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin VVay-Bills; and l dode clare the following to be a full, clear, and ein act description ofthe'invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in way-bills' for use in handlingfreight-cars; and the object thereof is to afford a convenient recordwhich will facilitate in directing the return of said cars to the pointwhere received and also to provide means in connection with theforegoing from which to determine the number of days said cars arelocated on the receiving-railway.

l accomplish my object by the construction and arrangement of theway-bill illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l isa plan showing one side of my way-bill, and Fig. 2 is a plan of thereverse side of same.

Referring now to the letters of reference,

A is a card and B is a series of erforations forming a line down thecenter of the card, on which the card is suited to be folded and whichdivides said card into two sectionsnamely, the card way-bill proper, C,and the coupon D. The said way-bill proper contains printed matter andspaces thereon for recording the initial letters of the car to behandled, its number, shipping directions, and matter usually recordedupon way-bills in common use.

This invention lies particularly in the attached coupon D, upon which isto be rccorded the initial letters and number of the car as recordedupon the way-l-ill proper. A series of spaces E are arranged upon saidcoupon and are headed by the words This car routes home. ed to receivethe entry of matter showing the name of the place where the car wasreceived and the initial letters of the railway company which deliveredthe car to the railway company which is to handle said car and by whichThe spaces E are intend.

latter company this way-`oill 1s to ne used. (For the sake ofconvenience of description the company handling the car will behereinafter' referred to by the fictitious name Blue River Railway.) Thewaybill proper, C, and the coupon D bear the name of the Blue RiverRailway, and said coupon bears also the title Home-route coupon,7 asshown at F, and printed directions, as shown at G,

as follows: This coupon must accompany car to destination and when madeempty car must be handled in accordance with information shown hereon.Should car be reloaded, agent will show above information on card Imadeat his station. lVhen car leaves the line, agent at junction-point willdetach coupon and hold it pending the probable return of car. Upon thereverse side of the coupon D, at the top thereof, as shown at H, isprinted the following statement: The following information is for perdiem purposes. day limit is not overrun. A series of spaces J arearranged upon said coupon beneath `said statement to receive the entryof the initial letters of the car being handled and the date when thesaine was received upon the tracks of thellue River Railway.

It has now in certain districts become a custom in railway practice fora iirst railway to pay a second railway for the use of a car of thesecond railway for the time said car is on the rails of the lirstrailway, the charge being computed at the per diem rate of a certainnominal sum, and, a substantial increased surn per diem for the time inexcess of a certain number of consecutive days when held by the firstrailway. It therefore becomes an advantage to the first railway tohandle the car of the second railway with de-l spatch, and vice versa.It is also a practice for a first railway to return a car of a secondrailway to the rail-way from which said car was received by the firstrailway and at the junction-point thereon where the said car wasreceived. A practice now in use to direct the handling of a car underabove circumstances is to attach to said car a card upon which isentered the name of the junctionpoint where the same is received. Thismethod is imperfeet, for the reason that the entry on said card oftenbecomes indistinct from exposure tf Care should be taken that the 30?weather, and it frequently occurs that euch' cards are unofliciallyremoved from cars, thus destroying the function of the entry.

' In ueingmy coupon way-hill the Way-bill proper and the coupon thereona'relled out as hereinbefore described, and the coupon remeins attachedtothe way-bill proper until the car Areaches its destination. The couponand way-bill proper are held by the official in charge ci the ear and isdelivered by him to the way-bill proper' the initial' lettere of' thecar, its number, naine of place of destination, and such other data asie usually placed upon lWaybille in common use, and then, entering uponthe coupon the saine lettere and number 'I of the car as entered uponthewaybi1l proper and alsoin the space E thenanie of the juncti'onfpointandinitial lettere of the railway y. fromV which said car is received,which in the drawings is shown to be Chicago, C. da'

' W. Ry.

Upon the reverse side of the cou-- pon D in theepecee therefor providedis eutered the initial lettere of the railway from which the car wasreceived and the date when received. The wey-bul, including the coupon,is then delivered by the official in charge of the car to the agent orother ofcial at the destination or point of delivery. The

veeee coupon is then detached pending the return of the car. If the caris returned empty, the coupon is deliveredA by the official in charge ofthe returning ear to the agent at the junction-point Where firstreceived, who returns the car to the railway from which the car wasfirst received. The said coupon therefore Serves in directing the returnof. the cer and also aorde data from which can be easily computed theamount of per diem charges.

5 Having described my A"invention, what I claim as new, and desire toeecure by Letters Patent, is-

Awaybill for use in handling railway-cars, comprising a wey-bill properhaving adetachzible coupon in connection therewith, the seid couponvhaving,` appropriatly-designated spaces for the `entry of the initialletters and number of the carto be handled; spaces E, sited This carroutes home7 or words i of ,i junction-point where, end the initialletters of th e railway from which seid carie received;

enden-id coupon also containing approprb' etely-designated spaces J forthe entry of the initial lettere of the railway from which the i car inreceived and the date thereof, for the purpose epecied.

In testimony whereof l. afiix my Signature4 in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLAM F. MULLAHY.

Witnesses:

WALTER G. BURNS, M. J. BLETZ..

.e eii'ect, for the entry of the name of the`

